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Patented Sept. 17, 1929 i UNITED STATES A PATENT opl-ICE l EDWARD E. BROSIUS, yO1? SEATTLE, IASHINGCION,` ASSIGNOR T0 THE IATRICIANA CORPORATION, OF PORTLAND, OREGON, A CORPORATION OF OREGON cAsE ron CIGARETTE HOLDERSy Application mea June 4, 1927. serial No. 196,616.

rlhe present invention relates to an improved case for cigarette holders, which while adapted for retaining various articles is especially designed for use as a pocket article in which the standard types of cigarette and cigar holders may be carried with convenience and comfort. The cigarette holders are readily adapted to be inserted and retained within the case, and with equal facility the holder when needed for use, may be withdrawn from its case and the latter supported in manner similar to a pocket-fountain-pen. The invention consists in certain novel combinations and arrangements of parts including resilient clasp arms within the case for co-action with a cigarette holder having an exterior annular groove, as will hereinafter be more fully pointed out and claimed. In the accompanying drawings I have illustrated one complete example, (and a modified form thereof) of the physical embodiment of my invention wherein the parts are combined and arranged according to the best mode I have thus far devised for the practical application of the principlesof my invention.

Figure 1 is an exterior view of a case involving the novel features of my invention, showing also the cigarette holder therein.

Figure 2 is a sectional view of the case showing the holder therein.

Figure 3 is an enlarged, transverse sectional view at line 3-3Mof Figure 2.

Figure 4 is a perspective Viewk showing the pair of clasp arms and grips for engaging the cigarette holder. y

Figure 5 is a slightly modified View showing in section a different retaining means for the clasp arms kof the holder-retaining device.

Figure 6 is an enlarged view showing the arms of Figure 5.

In carrying out my invention I preferably use a case comprising a pair of integral cylindrical barrels 1 and 2 and a clip 3 is secured to the exterior of the larger barrel 1 for retaining the device in a pocket similar to the manner in which a fountain pen is retained in the pocket.

The upper end of the case is closed, except for a small opening 4 which performs the function of venting the interior of the case 6,arranged preferably at di'ametrically op-kr posite points within the case and each fashioned with an offset end 7 thatis perforated at 8 to receive an attaching rivettor pin by r.prises a pair of longitudinally disposed arms means of which the offset yends of the arms..

are secured to the case.` These arms are madew of resilient metal and each arm is fashioned with a'curvedy or semi-circular clasp arm 9 on the inner face of which is secured a gripping lining or grip 10,fpreferably of rubber f or other soft resilient material for gripping the holder 12. n

At 11, 11, the inner face of the case is grooved longitudinally and as the offset end 7 of the spring arms is seated and secured in the upper end of the groove, these two grooves permit the spring arms 6 to be retracted therein when required. i

The cigarette holder 12 is preferablyy provided with a tapered portion 13 for frictional engagement. with the complementary tapered portion 5 at the lower end of the case and this frictional engagement serves to prevent wobbling of the holder when it is retained in its case. Adjacent to the tapered part of the holder, an annular, exterior groove 14 is provided, and the mouthpiece of the holder is fashioned with the usual head yor` bead 15." y

It will be evident that the grips 10, 10, are i designed to fit into the yannular groove 14 0f the holder, and it will also be evident that the i holder, as it isinserted in the case, spreads the spring arms 6,y 6, back into their grooves until the annular kgroove 14 reaches these grips whereupon thelatter swing into fricf tional engagement with the grooved holder to retain it against displacement. To withf draw the holder, when it is needed, the lower end is grasped in the handand a slight jerk will free the grooved holder from the grip y of the retaining clasp.

y iool In Figure 5 a metal band or ring 16 is seated by proper tools in the interior Wall of the case7 over the offset ends 17 of the spring arms 6, to hold the spring arms in place, and these arms perform the same functions and in the saine manner as do the arms of Figure il. However7 the perforations 8 of the otset ends of the arms and the necessary rivets of the device of Figure 2 are dispensed with in the form of the invention shown in Figure 5.

The case thus described forms a convenient, and sanitary device for enclosing and retaining the cigarette holder,V and may be kept in convenient access Whenever Wanted` by the smoker.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is The combination in a case for cigarette holders having a pair of oppositely arranged longitudinally extending spring arms located in'grooves in the face of the case, arcuate shaped7 integral clasp arms disposed at right angles to tbe spring arms, and rubber grip members on said clasp arms adapted to co-act with an annular groove in the cigarette i holder.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

EDIVVARD E. BROSIUS. 

